One of the more highly anticipated features of vSphere is the ability to thin-provision VMs for their storage. I first made mention of this during the end of the private beta program, and expressed ...

The concept of thin provisioning in storage has been around for longer than many people think. I first used space-efficient volumes in the early 1990s on StorageTek’s Iceberg storage array, later ...

In VMWare VSphere, the Virtual Machine disks Consolidation Needed status is displayed in the Summary section if leftover virtual disk files or snapshots are not merged with the base virtual disk file ...

I have a Win 10 Pro/64 box with 4 SATA drive bays that I'm using as a 2nd-tier backup storage box (Veeam repository). When I first populated the box, I did a "thin provisioning" and created a 16 TB ...

This post from moullas reminded me of something I've been meaning to ask for a while but keep forgetting! Problem: Is there any way to programmatically match up a Windows drive letter with its ...